Lyric : Beyonce’s new Album “Lemonade” Presents Skewed View of God

 

 

 

Pop superstar Beyonce’s new album is stirring up all sorts of buzz, but not necessarily in a good way.
Apparently “Lemonade” paints a pretty skewed version of Christianity that isn’t sitting too well with folks of faith.

Throughout the film, which is both narrated with words and the music on her 12 track album, she portrays scenes of prayer, fasting, confession of sins, baptism, God, devil, and curses all to describe the emotional roller coaster of her marriage to Jay Z.

Beyonce’s description of making love to her husband, whom she says has a God complex, is pegged as “worship” because of the vain use of the phrase “oh my God” while the two are intimate.

At one point the words “God is God and I’m not” were displayed on the screen as Beyonce sang: “When you love me, you love yourself, love God herself.” Beyonce recounted that “God was listening” to her during her time of pain and said “Heaven will be a love without betrayal.”

Following over 20 minutes of rage, vulgar language, sexual content and gyrating, the 34 year old comes out of her symbolic dark pit with a country song about her dad, who was also reportedly unfaithful to her mother.

After an emotional performance of her song,”Sand Castles,” which featured a cameo of her alleged betrayer Jay Z, the resurrection part of the visual album is kicked off by a woman’s voice proclaiming that Jesus is the only way to move forward in life.

“How are we supposed to lead our children to the future? How do we lead them? Love, l.o.v.e love, hallelujah, thank you Jesus,” the woman proclaims. “I love the Lord that’s all I got, period. When your back is against the wall and your wall is against your back who you call? Who you call? You gotta call Him, you gotta call Jesus, because you ain’t got no other hope.”

Trying to unravel all that’s wrong with Beyonce’s view of God and Christianity would probably take a life time.

It’s pretty clear she doesn’t get what the gospel is really about. It’s not about having your best life now, but about being rescued from the wrath of God each and every one of us deserves for breaking God’s law.

At this point, all we can really do is pray that God puts people who have the truth in her life so that she can find true peace with the Lord through the cross